Rushall Olympic 1 Belper Town 1
Two new grounds in two games with this trip to Rushall Olympics Dales Lane. Turned out that it was a fairly short trip of 40 miles from Belper to the district of Rushall. Taking no chances Scribbler had printed some directions off the internet and I had the Sat Nav programmed for the postcode in the UniBond handbook.
We set off about 1pm from Oldrini Towers in Kilburn and a steady drive down the A38 saw us well on the way by about 13:40. Despite Scribbler trying to get us lost by insisting we turn left at EVERY set of traffic lights after we reached the roundabout at the end of the A38, I stuck to the sat nav directions and we arrived at the ground well in time for a cup of tea before kick off.
A bit sparse is probably the kindest way to describe it with seating in a shallow stand down one side of the pitch and open standing on the other three sides. A very sloping pitch – from one side to the other rather than end to end. The people were very friendly and the hospitality good – I added another badge to my growing collection and the Rushall programme is streets ahead of any I’ve seen at this level (helped by the fact that someone at the club runs a printers no doubt).
The match itself was one to forget with the ball spending much of the time in the air where it threatened the aircraft coming in to land at some nearby airport (presumably Birmingham).
A penalty in each half, both scored by sending the keeper the wrong way totalled the scoring. One interesting note was the linesman on our side of the pitch for the first half was wearing glasses ! – now call me naïve but is that not just asking for trouble? As it turns out that’s exactly what the poor guy got from the locals. When their leading scorer Nathan Lamey went through on goal and appeared to be tripped by Richard Haigh, the referee (who also came in for a lot of stick from the nearside homers) choose to discuss this with the said linesman (I refuse to call them assistant referee’s) and after a long talk to Haighy and Hobbo gave a yellow card. At this point the ‘Pic fan to my right was apoplexic and almost had to be carried off.
Decided not to hang around after the game as we had another match on the Monday with it being Bank Holiday. Another easy drive home discussing the game saw us safely back in Belper (and Kilburn) by 6pm.
Two new grounds in two games with this trip to Rushall Olympics Dales Lane. Turned out that it was a fairly short trip of 40 miles from Belper to the district of Rushall. Taking no chances Scribbler had printed some directions off the internet and I had the Sat Nav programmed for the postcode in the UniBond handbook.
We set off about 1pm from Oldrini Towers in Kilburn and a steady drive down the A38 saw us well on the way by about 13:40. Despite Scribbler trying to get us lost by insisting we turn left at EVERY set of traffic lights after we reached the roundabout at the end of the A38, I stuck to the sat nav directions and we arrived at the ground well in time for a cup of tea before kick off.
A bit sparse is probably the kindest way to describe it with seating in a shallow stand down one side of the pitch and open standing on the other three sides. A very sloping pitch – from one side to the other rather than end to end. The people were very friendly and the hospitality good – I added another badge to my growing collection and the Rushall programme is streets ahead of any I’ve seen at this level (helped by the fact that someone at the club runs a printers no doubt).The match itself was one to forget with the ball spending much of the time in the air where it threatened the aircraft coming in to land at some nearby airport (presumably Birmingham).
A penalty in each half, both scored by sending the keeper the wrong way totalled the scoring. One interesting note was the linesman on our side of the pitch for the first half was wearing glasses ! – now call me naïve but is that not just asking for trouble? As it turns out that’s exactly what the poor guy got from the locals. When their leading scorer Nathan Lamey went through on goal and appeared to be tripped by Richard Haigh, the referee (who also came in for a lot of stick from the nearside homers) choose to discuss this with the said linesman (I refuse to call them assistant referee’s) and after a long talk to Haighy and Hobbo gave a yellow card. At this point the ‘Pic fan to my right was apoplexic and almost had to be carried off.Decided not to hang around after the game as we had another match on the Monday with it being Bank Holiday. Another easy drive home discussing the game saw us safely back in Belper (and Kilburn) by 6pm.
Next up – a trip to Glossop in the FA Cup
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